The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-05-12
PARIS C0RRESpONDECE.

The palace is a plain building
front, with two wings, and sur
rounded by wall. 1t is furnished
with modern sumptuousness hence
the contrast between the Western
luxuries of 1887, and the wilde
ness of surrounding nature and
rude Orientalism. Gobein tapestry
alternates with Eastern cloths, and
the most finished bronzes, beside
highly artistic furniture and deli
cately painted China. The Prince
was educated in Paris, and the Rus
slams furnished his palace. The
pictures are limited to the ''patrons"
of Montenegro-,he Cars; and the
Observation-Disclosures and ancestors
at once of the ruling family. Prince
Nikita is AZ years of age, and very
popular; hepossesses frank and win
ming manners; in stature, tall and
slightly corpulent; has remark
ably thick head of black hair, quick
and penetrating eyes. He wears
his moustache and whiskers, like
the Gar Alexandra III. His strength
is proverbial; he is q capital sports
man and an accomplished horseman.
His toilette consists of a white
wooden tunic with cose-iitting
sleeves, red wastcoat and blue
knickerbockers, red Greek cap, with
black silk braiding.
The Prince was married in 1860
to the daughter of the commander
in chief of. his army the Princess
Milena, is forty years of age, good
looking, with thick auburn hair, and
two expressive black eyes. She was
once the most beautiful woman in
the realm, but as mother of ten
children, she looks no longer young
her manners are gentle and affable ;
she has made no greater voyage than
the Vicar of Wakefield's wife, and
speaks French with difficulty. Her
eldest daughter, the Princesse Larka,
as brought up in st. Petersburg,
and is married to Prince Karageorge-
witch, the pretender to the throne OF
Servia.
Prince Danilo, the heir apparent,
is sixteen years of age, resembling
in every respect his father. Though
there is n Senate, legislation and
administration are carried on after
perepatetic principles. Prince Nikits
while walking through his mair
street, stops and listens to the com
plant of any of his subjects, ant
sitting on the wall of the city well
st. Louis axes up his position under
an oak, and reconciles disputants. A
Montenegrin is proud of two things
his pipe and his fire arms, and i.
never without both. The Prince
keeps a good table, where the mum
ber of dishes served, is legion, bu
smack too much of the German pre-
paration--excess of sweets. Th'
host himself luxuriates in the nationa
dish of "smoked goat;" just a
Napoleon III. revelled off a muttor
hash, and Thiers on battered cod
on the sly. All Montegrins are borl
gamblers and pass the night at whis
cribbage and billiards.
Woman is not held in much esteem
in Montnegro the birth of girl il
viewed as Il family calamity; th'
father apologises to his friends, whe,
the little stranger is not of the Sc,
desired, local proverb says, 6,
boy is gift from God, and girl I
present from the -" Western
babies are baptised by making th'
sign of the cross with water on thu
forehead ia Montnegro, the infan
is plunged as if it was 2l years OF
age, into bath of cold water. Ii
bottle full taken from the Neva
be added, so much the better for the
youngsters future luck. This dip
is held to "harden" baby for life
to impart foretaste of its difficulties
and keep away the malades of child
hood. Certainly measles, whooping-
cough, and such nursery endemics
are unknown. There is not an
, onotho.orv,c acta hli Shmopt in tho